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October, 2010

An Israeli citizen who is accused of having slashed or stabbed over a dozen victims in the midwestern United States in the past few months is in custody, and will be monitored for psychiatric issues, say officials.
Elias Abuelazam was arrested on August 11 at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Interna...

A Los Angeles area osteopath is under investigation after at least of her patients have died of prescription drug overdoses in recent years.
The Rowland Heights office of Dr. Lisa Tseng was recently searched by authorities, who suspect the osteopath of having improperly prescribed narcotics such...

A former Twin Towers Correctional Facility inmate is seeking $3 million in damages, mostly for emotional suffering he incurred during what he alleges was a sexual assault by three L.A. County sheriff's deputies.
The accusation and civil suit stem from a 2007 incident in which Alejandro Franco, t...

An American housewife who was convicted of murdering her husband in Hong Kong, but who won a retrial, is now asking the judge in the case to dismiss all charges against her, according to her attorney.
Nancy Kissel was convicted in 2005 of the murder of her husband Robert, an investment banker wh...

A privately run correctional facility in Delaware County, Pennsylvania is coming under fire once again for having mistakenly released inmates because of employee or clerical errors.
Earlier this summer, Taaqi Brown, 21, a murder suspect in custody at the George W. Hill Correctional Facility, was...

The family of a man whose dying wish was to be buried at sea may face charges stemming from that burial, which authorities say was in violation of federal guidelines for the disposal of human remains.
Daniel Scott Laskey, who died of Lou Gehrig's disease in early September, had requested that he...

One of three Americans who has been detained in an Iranian jail for over a year will be released, according to media sources in Tehran.
Sarah Shourd, 32, was hiking in the Kurdistan region of Iraq with her fiance, Shane Bauer, 28; and Josh Fattal, also 28, when they allegedly crossed an unmarked...

A Canadian marijuana activist, once known as the “prince of pot,” is now incarcerated in Washington State's Federal Detention Center, SeaTac, serving a five-year term as part of a plea deal.
Marc Emery, 52, entered a guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana in May, 201...

A Kentucky inmate who would otherwise face execution on September 16th has asked a Kenton Circuit Court judge to stop that execution, on grounds that he is mentally disabled.
The motion for a stay of execution was recently filed by Gregory L. Wilson, 53, who also claims that he has the right to re...

The former chief judge of the Jersey City Municipal Court has been sentenced to community service and probation for her role in a ticket-fixing scandal.
Wanda Molina, 51, was remorseful as she heard the sentence, handed down by state Superior Court Judge Harry Carroll. She was also given probati...

The first defendants to be tried under a new Washington, DC statute aimed at reducing gang-related violence are going before a judge and jury this week.
Prosecutors say that the men on trial, members of the Todd Place crew, followed and shot Gary O. English, 33, who was allegedly associated with...

Authorities investigating the abduction and death of a teenage girl in Moreno Valley, California have searched a nearby home and seized a vehicle that may be connected to the crime.
Norma Lopez, 17, was abducted in July as she was walking from a summer school class to a friend's home. After her ...

Jurors in Miami-Dade County have convicted a 31-year-old man of first-degree murder and attempted murder in the orchestrated attack that killed his mother and blinded his father.
According to prosecutors, Christopher Sutton, who was adopted by John R. and Susan Sutton as a newborn, was upset ove...

Detectives are investigating a March 2010 incident in which police officers, outfitted in riot gear, allegedly beat an unarmed University of Maryland student. They are attempting to determine whether or not police supervisors may have been implicated, and whether or not there was an attempted cover...

A convicted rapist—who had been eligible for prosecution under California's three-strikes law, but who had been allowed to plea bargain to a lesser sentence—has been given a life sentence for the rape and murder of a homeless runaway in 2007.
The “third strike” in the case of Gilton Belt...

After eluding capture for two years, during which time he is suspected to have stolen at least five planes, a boat and two cars, as well as to have committed over 100 burglaries of private residences and small businesses, the so-called “Barefoot Bandit” has been captured.
Colton Harris-Moore...

According to an affidavit filed with the Connecticut Superior Court, a Catholic priest in Connecticut has been charged with first-degree larceny after using over $1 million of church money to bankroll an extravagant secret life.
Father Kevin Gray, 64, allegedly used funds from the coffers of Wat...

An arrest has been made in the case of the so-called “Grim Sleeper”serial killer, whom police believe is responsible for approximately a dozen deaths over the last several decades.
Lonnie David Franklin, Jr., 51, was arrested in South Los Angeles yesterday. He faces 10 counts of murder and o...

Two former prison employees have filed a lawsuit, claiming that an inmate electronics-recycling program is to blame for their heavy metal poisoning and subsequent illnesses.
Freda Cobb, 49, once worked as a guard and cook supervisor at Marianna Federal Correctional Institution. Because of the me...

A citizen of Montenegro was convicted last week for the murder and mutilation of a woman in Brooklyn, where he had been working as a taxi driver.
Smail Tulja, 69, has been called the Navy Yard Butcher, after the location of his crime. According to authorities, Yugoslav immigrant Mary Beal had da...

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